Counting

As the proud father that I am, I believe Dallin is quite intelligent. He'll be turning three years old next month. Most kids his age can count at least to ten, as he can. But what surprises me is his understanding of humor.

I read to him at night from a book that has numbers in it where we will count together. I'll randomly point to a number and say, "What's that?" Most of the time he will get it right. However, after a little while he'll get bored with this and then he'll point to a number... two for instance, and say, "That's a four."

He'll look at me with a mischievous grin until I say, "No silly that's a two." This is followed by Dallin laughing and insisting,

"No, it's a four."

He thinks he's pretty funny. We'll go back and forth debating the numeric value of the digit 2 for a while until I reverse it on him on the say it's a four. That always throws him for a loop for at least a couple seconds.

He'll also play this game on a page full of objects... He'll insist that the submarine is an airplane and that the airplane is the submarine.

The cutest thing is that he thinks he's so clever and funny.